brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the established facts in the case"

securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet"

situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns"

coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"

of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock"